Top 39 Codex Quotes
#1. In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
Alberto Manguel
#2. Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.
Russell Smith
#3. Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.
Fernand Point
#4. No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.
Karen Chance
#5. No need to be sarcastic, Codex.
I think that's sincere, actually.
Wow.
Cassandra Clare
#6. So the librarians at UCLA worked very hard to find another copy of Villacorta's rendition of the Dresden Codex, and lent it to me.
Richard Feynman
#7. The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.
Margaret Atwood
#8. So this is more a "do as the Codex says, not as Jace does" situation, I guess. Since he just Marks any girl he likes, apparently.
When she is dying, yes!
Cassandra Clare
#9. Thank you, Codex, because I didn't know what a knife was.
Cassandra Clare
#10. The Aleppo Codex is not only the oldest complete codex of the Tiberian Bible text known to us, but it is altogether the earliest complete codex of that Masoretic subsystem which had been perfected by Ben-Ashers.
Goshen-Gottstein
#11. I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
Felicia Day
#12. The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.
Damian Wampler
#13. Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts of ways to wander in. This thing is a fortress with no front gate. You're meant to scale the walls, stone by stone.
Robin Sloan
#14. I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology ... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
Robert Darnton
#15. If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
John Updike
#16. Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure.
Brent Weeks
#17. Hey baby, guess where my warlock mark is?
Never works. Trust me. Never works.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.
Jim Butcher
#19. I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.
David Conyers
#20. Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
Victor Hugo
#21. In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#23. All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.
Lysander Spooner
#24. If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.
Marianne Williamson
#25. I see you had no taste for the wine I sent you."
"Such sudden generosity seemed somewhat suspect."
"I can have your head off anytime I want. Why should I need to poison you?"
"Death by poison can seem natural. Harder to claim that my head simply fell off.
George R R Martin
#26. Here we attempt to answer those questions that arise most frequently.
YES, THAT IS WHAT 'FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS' MEANS, THANK YOU.
Cassandra Clare
#27. What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom ... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Hyman G. Rickover
#28. Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.
Lev Grossman
#29. My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.
Sophia Amoruso
#30. NYC Institute has one. I'll show you sometime if you want.
It's a date.
It is maybe the least romantic spot in the Institute, by the way.
You'll make up for that, I'm sure.
(Jeez, get a locked room on unsanctified ground, you two.)
Cassandra Clare
#31. In 1444 in Wallachia/The vampires all came forth to rock ya, ha.
Just no.
Cassandra Clare
#32. You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.
Jim Butcher
#33. Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.
Cassandra Clare
#34. I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.
Leon Charney
#35. Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.
Jim Butcher
#36. The Iraqi regime ... possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.
George W. Bush
#37. I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.
Cassandra Clare
#38. My first album will be titled One Foot in Hell Already.
Cassandra Clare
